I am developing an rcp app with hibernate and hibernate validation. So far I have three bundles, My own app with annotated pojo's, one for hibernate and one for hibernate validation.

Its up and running and in my app, I can annotate my pojo's in a way that hibernate and hibernate validations work. For hibernate validations I can add an annotation with a message and that also works. I used Eclipse-RegisterBuddy to make it work.

Hibernate validations can also work with the messages in a ValidationMessages.properties file that should be put into the root of the jar.

While developing in eclipse I cannot get it working. I never get an error message that is defined in my ValidationMessages.properties file.

So where do I have to put this file. Is there a difference between working in Eclipse and when it is actually deployed. Do I have to specify somewhere that this file is copied into the jar? (I have checked the file in the build configuration but that does not work).